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  2. THOUSANDS FLEEING FROM CANTON

    Almost half of Canton has been evacuated. Thousands of people have fled to villages outside the city, while others have gone to Hong Kong. Those who have made Hong Kong their refuge are mostly ...

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  3. BRITAIN'S FIRST FLYING BATTLE-SHIP

    Sunderland, first of Britain's new fleet of "flying battle-ships," underwent its Air Ministry trials at the Royal Air Force station at Felixstowe (Suffolk) before being handed over to the R.A.F. by the builders. The air battle-ship is a development of the successful Empire type commercial flying-boat now in service on Imperial Airways Empire routes. Its speed and range are still secret. ... [ILLUSTRATED]

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  4. COLLISION IN THAMES

    The Commonwealth and Dominion line steamer Port Nicholson collided last night with a London tug, the Ocean Cock, in ...

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  5. NEW ROAD NEAR M.C.G.

    Portion of the road which the City Council is constructing round the Melbourne Cricket-ground from Punt road to Wellington parade south is blocked in the ...

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  6. TEST CRICKET EXCLUSION OF WAITE

    Australia chose McCormick in prefer— ence to Waite, a decision that was doubtful. England decided to strengthen its batting by omitting Pope, the all-rounder ...

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  7. FIRE IN HEART OF SYDNEY

    SYDNEY, Friday.—A fire broke out late to-night in what is regarded as one of the city's danger spots—a block of buildings in the heart of the square ...

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  8. FRENCH TENNIS TITLE

    Australia has an excellent chance of winning the mixed doubles title at the French tennis championships, for Gene Mako and Mrs. Hopman and Christian ...

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  9. 400 PLANES FROM U.S.A.

    The Air Ministry has decided to order 400 war planes from, the United States—200 general reconnaissance planes and 200 ...

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  10. TWO MORE SUSPECTS

    Two additional suspects in the Cash kidnapping case are being questioned as Federal Investigation Officers are continuing their ...

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  11. BOMBING OF SHIPS

    A special meeting of high officials of the Navy, the Army, and the Air Force has been called in London ...

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  12. ARRESTED AFTER ROBBERY

    Detectives attached to the Kew division of the Criminal Investigation Branch arrested a man in the street at Kew yesterday afternoon shortly after a robbery at ...

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  13. CONTRACT BRIDGE

    Following are the results of play this week in the current championships and pennant tourneys of the victorian Bridge Union:—Open—Dr. J. L. Thwa[?] leading Miss I. O. Krakowski by 1,010 ...

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  14. MAY TAKE RISK OF STRIKE

    SYDNEY, Friday.—An intensive Propaganda campaign will bo conducted through the northern coalfields in the next two months to obtain "complete ...

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  16. ENDING RIOTS IN SANJAK

    A reported agreement to end a long-standing dispute between France and Turkey in Syria is on the point of realisation following ...

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  17. PARTY TO CLIMB HIMALAYAS

    WELLINGTON, Friday. —On the first stage of a Journey to Peimashon Range, on the borders of China and Tibet, where they intend to mountaineer, Miss M. ...

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  18. SURPRISES FOR FIRMS

    SYDNEY, Friday.—Seven firms in Lithgow, doing business with warehouses in Sydney, have received goods which they have not ordered. ...

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  19. RAISING FOOD STANDARDS

    The Australian Minister for Commerce (Sir Earle Page), speaking as guest of honour at a dinner of the Royal Institute of Health and Hygiene, said that the ...

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  20. NUFFIELD CASE ADJOURNED

    Hearing of the Lord Nuffield kidnapping charge has been adjourned until June 13, ball having been refused the defendant, John Bruce Thornton. ...

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  21. CONSERVATIVES HOLD STAFFORD

    In the by-election for the Stafford constituency caused by the elevation to the peerage of the former Colonial Secretary (Mr. Ormsby-Gore) ...

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  22. GOLD, EXCHANGES, MARKETS

    Price of gold, £7/0/7. Exchanges. — Dollar, 4.95[?]; franc, 178?; guilder (Batavia), 8.94½. Australian Mining Shares. — Quietly ...

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  23. FIRST HOME IN GRAIN RACE

    The four-masted barque passat is the first windjammer to reach Falmouth in the grain race. Captain Ericson said that the voyage was uneventful. The Horn ...

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  24. HUGE GRAIN STOCKS FOR GERMANY

    The International Institute of Agriculture reports that Germany is buying vast stocks of grain. Imports of wheat into Germany for the eight months ended ...

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  25. STAR'S SUIT AGAINST PLAYWRIGHT

    The film star Luise Rainer has filed a divorce suit against the Left-wing playwright, Clifford Odets. Miss Rainer accuses her husband of ...

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  26. EXPLORER REACHES GOAL

    Mr. Richard Archbold, the millionaire explorer, and his flying crew of five landed at 7.11 am., having completed a trailblazing flight from Wake Island without ...

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  27. London Metal Prices

    Metal prices at 2 p.m. to-day are compared hereunder with official closing quotations on Thursday (in parentheses):- ...

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  28. MAY HAVE HIT VULTURE

    It is believed that the cause of the aeroplane crash which killed three R.A.F. boxers, their trainer, and the crew of the machine was the striking of a vulture. ...

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  29. NO POSTPONEMENT OF U.S. TRADE TALKS

    It is stated in official quarters that there are no indications of any postponement of the Anglo-American trade negotiations now proceeding in Washington. ...

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  30. AIRMAN ENGAGED TO AUSTRALIAN GIRL

    Mr. Alfred Jackaman, aged 34 years, a well-known British airman and civil aviation representative in East Africa, has become engaged to Miss Cherry Davies, ...

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  31. CABLES IN BRIEF

    LONDON, Friday. — Earl Baldwin, as Chancellor of Cambridge University, presided at a congregation to-day at which seven honorary degrees were conferred. ...

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  32. Young Speakers Feli[?]te Newly Knighted Chief

    Two junior members of the staff were entrusted with the principal speeches when officers of the central administration of the Postmaster-General's Department ...

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  33. OLYMPIC SWIMMER DIVORCED

    The band leader and crooner Arthur Jarrett has been granted a divorce from the Olympic swimming champion. Eleanor Holm Jarrett. ...

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  34. SHOTS AT PLANE OVER POLISH FRONTIER

    Esthonian frontier guards fired at a foreign bomber from Russia which was flying over the town of Narva. The plane was not hit, and returned to ...

    Article : 37 words
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